Helical_Pastimes_(Model)

TheTourists - 12db HalfCMix Nov8

for amplified viola, performer, and feedback system

CircularBridgeSquirrelWalk 2

Unnatural Habitats - ValleyVersion

UnnaturalHabitats(BackToTheLandVersion)

Inspired by popular discussions as to which of its four movements is best, Fans of Beethoven repurposes recordings of several recent performances of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony found on a popular video hosting website to reveal the oft overlooked harmony of pure air in motion (in Teplice).

Fans Of Beethoven

in warmer seasons proposes that individual trajectories between the parts of the ensemble can form an ecological whole.  Here, three musicians play parts which occupy distinct process-trajectories developing at their own individual rates.  Despite a shared eight-minute duration, there is no clock-time, meter, conductor, or other ensemble-wide time standard used in the piece.  Instead, each player follows their own variable time standard as delivered by a click track, and they play in response to the changing skin of the experienced moment.  Coincidental but nontrivial interactions result from a design logic applied on the scale of the individual parts.  This approach gives preference to the ongoing process of surprise and discovery through direct aural experience on the part of both performers and audience, over a desire for perfection of an abstract musical idea or structure.  Similar sentiment is celebrated by Lucretius in On the Nature of Things:
“Nothing in the body is made in order that we may use it.
What happens to exist is the cause of its use.”

In Warmer Seasons

Sound Artist, Noise Fanatic, Amp Worshiper,
Environmental Experimentalist, Music Composer:
(installations and ensembles or soloists
(with or without electronics [and/or computers])

and/or self as solo performer
(viola, guitar, objects, percussion, voice, electronics));

writer, researcher, educator;

Experimentalist exploring spatial listening, phenomenologies of temporality, and interaction with information and instruments in everyday life and dreams.

themes include:
{morphology, pattern formation & recognition
(plant, animal, weather, water, mineral)},
{phenomenology (visible & invisible, temporality, real and unreal situations and circumstances)},
{environments (ecology, interactivity)},
{(pre-) history (& post-)};

Jorge Boehringer

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